I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?''I'm looking now.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of the mess I am in now, he thought for a long time, and I didn't care much for his answer. 'Yes,' he said. 'Death would help.'

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.